Friday, October 7, 2005

Stella de Bode
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders / Linguistics Program
University of South Carolina

Cortical Plasticity and One Hemisphere: Language and Motor Functions Reorganized after Hemispherectomy

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 pm

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Sponsored by:
The USC Linguistics Program

Friday, November 4, 2005

Jennifer Reynolds
Department of Anthropology / Linguistics Program
University of South Carolina

Buenos días: The natural history of coined ritual insults and verbal duels in Antonero Maya households

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 pm

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Sponsored by:
The USC Linguistics Program

Friday, November 11, 2005

William L. Leap
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
American University

Professional baseball, urban restructuring, and the (changing) language(s) of gay geography in Washington, DC

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 pm

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Sponsored by:
The USC Linguistics Program

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Cynthia Ducar
SLAT Program
University of Arizona

Textbook Spanish: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Intermediate Level University Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) Textbooks' Treatment of Language Variation

Place: Gambrell 429
Time: 2:00 pm

Sponsored by:
The USC Linguistics Program

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Gregory Thompson
SLAT Program
University of Arizona

Teacher and Student TL and L1 Use in the FL Classroom: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Language Choice

Place: Humanities Classroom 105
Time: 2:00 pm

Sponsored by:
The USC Linguistics Program

Friday, January 20, 2006

Amit Almor
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
University of South Carolina

Conversation interferences in vision based tasks

Time: 12:15 pm

Sponsored by:
Hard Data Cafe, Department of Psychology

Friday, Febrary 3, 2006

Barbara Schulz
University of Hawaii / University of Maryland

What second language learners know about syntax but couldn't have learned

Place: Gambrell 152
Time: 3:30 pm

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Sponsored by:
The USC Linguistics Program
Department of English Language & Literature

Friday, February 17, 2006

Amanda Brown
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics / Boston University

Interactions between Emerging and Established Language Systems: Evidence from Speech and Gesture

Place: Gambrell 152
Time: 3:30 pm

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Sponsored by:
The USC Linguistics Program
Department of English Language & Literature

Friday, March 17, 2006

Pilar Garces Blitvich
Assistant Professor, Department of English
University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Listening in a second language: a socio-cognitive pragmatic approach

Place: Gambrell 152
Time: 3:30 pm

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Sponsored by:
The USC Linguistics Program
Department of English Language & Literature
Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Department of Philosophy

Friday, March 31, 2006

Steven Dworkin
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

The Semantic Evolution of Color Terms in Spanish

Place: Gambrell 152
Time: 3:30 pm

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Sponsored by:
The USC Linguistics Program
Department of Anthropology
Department of English Language & Literature
Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Department of Philosophy

Friday, April 7, 2006

Carol Myers-Scotton
Professor Emeritus, Department of English / Linguistics Program
University of South Carolina

Steps in Grammatical Shift

Place: Gambrell 152
Time: 3:30 pm

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Sponsored by:
The USC Linguistics Program